Daejeon to host 'Forest Culture Festival'... An urban festival for experiencing the forest

[Financial News] To mark the 10th anniversary of the Korea Forest Welfare Institute, the Korea Forest Service and the institute are presenting a forest culture festival in the heart of the city, where the whole family can experience the value of forests together.
 The Korea Forest Service and the Korea Forest Welfare Institute announced on the 26th that they will hold the '2026 Forest Culture Festival' over two days, on the 7th and 8th of next month, at Yurim Park in Yuseong District, Daejeon.
 Held under the theme 'Forest Culture Drawn in Green,' the event has been planned as a family-oriented festival open to the public, where people can experience and enjoy the forest firsthand in an urban setting and create a new forest culture together.
 The festival grounds will be divided into four themed areas—Culture, Connection, Enrichment and Experience—offering a diverse range of activities. The Culture area will feature an opening performance and a variety of cultural shows, while forest welfare facilities and specialist forest-welfare businesses from across the country will offer hands-on programs using natural materials in the Connection area.
 The Enrichment area will feature food trucks serving a variety of forest products, as well as a quiet reading area where visitors can relax with books included in the '100 Selected Works of Forest Literature.' In the Experience area, visitors will be able to try for free, in an urban forest, signature forest education, therapy, cultural and leisure-sports programs from forest welfare facilities across the country.
 “We prepared this festival so that people across the country can experience the value of forests firsthand in their daily lives and make meaningful memories with their families,” said Park Eunsik, head of the Korea Forest Service. “We will continue to expand forest welfare services that the public can experience firsthand and promote advanced forest culture.”
 More information about the event is available on the Korea Forest Welfare Institute's official website.
 Yurim Park in Daejeon, where the festival will be held, is a well-known urban waterfront ecological park at the confluence of Gapcheon Stream and Yuseongcheon Stream. The festival will bring forest welfare services to an easily accessible urban forest. By bringing specialized forest therapy and education programs—which until now could only be experienced by visiting National Recreational Forests or healing forests on the outskirts—into residents' everyday surroundings, the event is expected to give busy modern-day residents an opportunity to restore their mental and physical well-being and help improve the effectiveness of urban forest welfare.
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